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Manchester United captain Ashley Young will not be joining Inter Milan next summer neither will he be signing a pre-contract agreement with other clubs having be given a one-year contract extension.  Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a huge fan of the 34-year-old and feels his presence at the club will be useful to the younger players in the team.  Although, the decision to keep him at the club haven't gone down well with fan who vented angrily on different social medias.  Some of the tweet reads; "How the might have fallen.. "  Another aggrieved post reads: "The more Man U fans want to escape the more the owners give them pain".  Another reads: "This Ole and Co. are really taking us for granted. You can't be renewing Ashley's contract while there are real loopholes to cover.. it's getting out of hand".  Sad ones goes this way: "Why, just why would you do that? He is part of the dead wood that they need clearing out "This ...

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Will Liverpool crumble if Virgil van Dijk is ruled out for the rest of the season?

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Virgil van Dijk is a world class defender, a leader and above all a professional player who knows ever detail of his job and how to do it.

He posses the aerial prowess to trouble any defense in the world, the incisive passes to build the game from the back and the vocal communication to speak to any player/defender and keep him check. 

What really makes him special which Jurgen Klopp can attest is his desire to improve and help others improve as well. 

The 27-year-old Dutch international have made Liverpool a world class team and today their European champions. 

But the question remains, what will happen if Van Dijk is ruled out for the rest of the season? Will Liverpool's defense crumble or remain strong? 

Jurgen Klopp was asked that very question during his press conference on Friday and he had this to say: 'I have 4 world class defenders who can play very well. If Van Dijk is injured; Joe Gomez, Dejan Lovren and Joel Matip can equally do the same job'. 

But that's not true. None of this defenders posses the physical strength, aerial ability, emotional intelligence and world class mistiming and interceptions of  Van Dijk. 

Van Dijk is not all about defending; he orchestrates the tempo of the game from the back and ensures the back line are in order and not out of shape. 

He scores goals when the chances present itself and makes key interceptions or lunges to limit the number of shots Adrian or Alisson Becker gets in a match. 

He makes Joel Matip believe in his undoubted quality and permits him to maraud forward and join the attack when the chance present itself. 

His partnership with Joel Matip is the best Liverpool have had in 14 years. But men are world class which is why Liverpool are the prime candidates to win the Premier League and Champions League. 

But if Van Dijk do get injured {hopefully not the rest of the season}, it will certainly shake Liverpool but only if Joel Matip can regurgitate everything he has learned from Van Dijk and become the leader at the back. 



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